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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS

August 9, 2023Hamilton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2023, 9:48 AM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2023, 9:48 AM MDT (15:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2023, 10:15 AM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 40

County Hamilton County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 9, 4:44 AM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 4:44 AM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 4:20 AM MDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 9:48 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 10:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Ellis	40 min
Aug 8, 10:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis	52 min
Aug 8, 11:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Trego	40 min
Aug 8, 11:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Scott	51 min
Aug 8, 11:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Lane	47 min
Aug 8, 11:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	52 min
Aug 8, 11:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Lane, Ness	39 min
Aug 9, 12:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Ness, Trego	38 min
Aug 9, 12:25 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	DDC	Rush	50 min
Aug 9, 12:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ellis, Rush	32 min
Aug 9, 12:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush	52 min
Aug 9, 1:33 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	57 min
Aug 9, 2:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	54 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.